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Margaret Renkl on ‘The Comfort of Crows’
To celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of Talking Volumes, we are revisiting a favorite from last year. New York Times columnist and nature writer Margaret Renkl closed out the 2023 Talking Volumes season with meditations on the joys of a backyard oasis, the inevitable losses of a warming climate and how to live while holding both of those truths in tandem.
Rural Voice at the Minnesota State Fair
Kerri Miller launched season three of Rural Voice at the Minnesota State Fair by talking with community leaders, residents and problem solvers about the challenges and rewards of living rural.
How to defeat 'The Age of Grievance'
In his new book, columnist Frank Bruni argues that a culture of grievance in America is splintering our personal lives, sabotaging our culture and swamping our politics. But there is a way out.
Author A.J. Jacobs attempts a year of living constitutionally
When A.J. Jacobs embarked on his “Year of Living Constitutionally,” he pulled out the beeswax candles and the tricorn hat and discovered some profound truths about our complicated and flawed founding document.
The shadow fighters of the Civil War
Historian Patrick O’Donnell spotted an intriguing roadside marker and then spent six years researching a part of the Civil War long forgotten. His new book, “The Unvanquished,” tells the story shape-shifting spies, fearless guerilla fighters and military leaders straight out of a movie.